Advancing to a Junior Apprentice

At that,

Wayne nodded slightly, not asking the foolish question of why the academy had not simply explained it directly.

Then,

thinking that such an opportunity was rare, Wayne asked again, "Then what are the most important foundations of a lord wizard?"

Luna chuckled softly at his question. "Wizards believe in equivalent exchange,"

"but seeing as you are the first person to ask,"

"I'll consider this your reward."

She paused before continuing.

"For lord wizards, there are three most important foundations.

"First, resources—namely sprites and dragons.

"Second, the underlying logic of lord wizards: expanding the area of the sea of consciousness. This is something every lord wizard must work on throughout their life.

"Third, the imprinting of heaven-and-earth runes. The more runes imprinted in the sea of consciousness, the more wizard arrays can be combined,

"and the more complete they will become.

"Likewise, this is something every lord wizard spends their entire life doing."

At that,

Wayne gave a slight bow.

"Wayne thanks you for your guidance."

Luna waved her hand.

"Now that your doubts have been cleared up, you may leave.

"I wish that you will soon become a formal lord wizard."

Wayne nodded, turned, and left the office.

Half an hour later,

Wayne sat on the sofa on the second floor of the villa, holding a glass of orange juice as he looked through information on his tablet.

"Tsk, no wonder she glowed."

As soon as the words fell,

Wayne shut off the tablet. Thinking about the information he had just found on the forum, he could not help but smile.

The reason Wayne had thought Luna was glowing

was naturally not because lust had gotten the better of him.

After all, even a beautiful woman like the Rose Marquis could not stir Wayne's heart, much less Luna, the dean, who was somewhat inferior to the Rose Marquis.

The reason Wayne had entertained such a thought back then

was precisely because

Luna was a white wizard.

It was like when he had come into contact with certain people in his previous life—he could instinctively sense

the energy around them.

For example, when seeing an innocent girl, one could feel a sense of comfort.

But when seeing a snake,

one would feel a cold, sinister energy.

That was exactly the impression Wayne had felt after meeting Luna.

Back to the matter at hand.

Wayne set down his orange juice, turned, crossed his legs, and began to meditate.

The next second,

Wayne sensed the space of his sea of consciousness.

There was one final step left.

He summoned Infinite Slots. Two slots floated in the air.

Wayne controlled a mass of mental power,

and a droplet of mental power half the size of a basketball appeared in midair.

Finally,

with a thought, that mass of mental power vanished instantly. At that very moment, the second slot of Infinite Slots

displayed an icon of such a mass of water.

Below it was a line of text.

[Mental Power*Infinite]

At the sight,

Wayne could not help but laugh inwardly.

Sure enough,

his final guess had succeeded. Infinite Mental Power Achievement—completed.

At the same time,

with another thought from Wayne, mass after mass of mental power continuously surged forth and fell into the space of his sea of consciousness.

And since that mental power belonged to Wayne in the first place,

there was naturally no rejection, nor did it need refining like some heavenly treasure.

Tsk tsk.

It was hard to tell whether he had cheats or not!

As the masses of mental power fell, in less than an hour, the center of the sea of consciousness

had accumulated a thin layer of water.

And it was still increasing.

Of course, there were inconveniences as well. For example, Wayne had to control Infinite Slots himself in order to retrieve things from its slots.

Of course,

this was the trouble of happiness.

After all, when other people exhausted their mental power, they either replenished it through potions

or waited for it to recover naturally.

Wayne, meanwhile, needed only a single thought. Whether this journey into another world was the script of a feel-good novel,

Wayne did not need to think long about it.

Three days passed quickly, and Wayne gradually became able to divide his attention between two tasks.

At noon that day,

after finishing his meal and returning to the villa, Wayne began reading the Basic Meditation method. Though he had read it many times,

he still needed to read it.

After all, having read something did not mean remembering it.

Based on the fact that an apprentice-level beginner wizard array

required twelve runes,

Wayne would need three days

to become a junior lord wizard apprentice.

After recalling the details, excluding the time he spent unconscious, Wayne could imprint one rune in six hours.

The reason he said three days

was because he had not counted time for eating and sleeping.

Including those, Wayne could imprint three runes a day,

and finish in four days.

Then he could spend one day combining the wizard array. Altogether, he could become a junior lord wizard apprentice in five days,

because Wayne did not need to consider recovering his mental power.

Over these three days,

Wayne's sea of consciousness had already accumulated a one-meter-deep pool of mental power.

Starting tomorrow,

Wayne planned to begin cultivating. After all, this much mental power was enough for his cultivation during the apprentice stage.

Moreover,

during the process of accumulating it, he had truly sensed the area of his sea of consciousness.

Others could not sense it. They could only learn of it from records, because their mental power was not sufficient to spread across it.

Wayne's sea of consciousness,

however, covered an area with a radius of one kilometer. As for its height and depth, the records stated that it was one kilometer in every direction.

Speaking of this, one had to mention the gap in talent. A low-grade talent had a sea of consciousness area of 0.1 kilometers,

a mid-grade talent had 0.3,

a high-grade talent had 0.5,

and a top-grade talent had 1.

That was the difference between talents. Although, in terms of numbers, a high-grade talent was only half as large as a top-grade talent,

what truly separated them

was several wizard arrays.

The next day arrived.

After eating breakfast, Wayne began imprinting runes into his sea of consciousness.

Within the sea of consciousness,

a rune named "Gather" gradually manifested.

As time passed,

it gradually took shape. Looking at the scene within his sea of consciousness, Wayne sighed countless times at the wonder of extraordinary power.

At noon four days later,

as the final rune of the apprentice-level beginner Golden Nurturing Array was imprinted, Wayne opened his eyes and sensed

the twelve floating rune imprints within his sea of consciousness.

He felt a wave of relief.

The mental strain that had lasted four days

finally relaxed at that moment.

He fell asleep the instant his head hit the pillow!

When he woke on the fifth day, it was roughly as Wayne had estimated.

He first went to eat breakfast,

then returned to the villa and recalled the introduction to the wizard array combination section.

Combination was actually very simple.

One merely had to arrange the runes according to specific positions.

But the one thing that required attention

was the placement of those arrangements. Though theoretically speaking, the expansion of the sea of consciousness could be increased without limit,

it was like the concept of an inner heaven and earth mentioned in the theories of his previous life.

But there would be shackles.

For instance, there was a limit to expansion at every level. Therefore, every lord wizard would arrange things as reasonably as possible,

the positions occupied by their wizard arrays,

and their plans for future development.

Thinking of this, Wayne felt somewhat troubled.

At the same time, he thought,

why was there no comprehensive super array that combined offense, function, and support into one?

As he thought,

Wayne recalled many grand arrays from his previous life, such as the Myriad Immortals Array from prehistoric novels,

the Grand Zhou Heavenly Stars Array, and so on.

But those all existed in myths. He had never seen their array diagrams and did not even know how to arrange them.

Trying to create one based on nothing but a name

could be summed up in three words:

hard, hard, hard.

After thinking it over, Wayne still had no clue, so he simply decided to divide the area according to the usual descriptions.

Half and half.

One half would be inscribed with elemental wizard arrays, while the other half would be inscribed with functional wizard arrays.

With that thought,

Wayne closed his eyes. The next second, he sensed the space of his sea of consciousness.

On the right side of that space,

with a thought, the twelve rune imprints arrived in an instant.

Wayne began arranging them according to the formation order of the Golden Nurturing Array.

Twelve runes,

With a thought from Wayne, they settled into the twelve positions,

The next moment,

The twelve runes lit up, and golden lines of energy began linking them together.

A moment later,

A witch formation radiating golden light fully took shape.

The instant it formed,

Wayne could sense countless magic energy particles of every color drifting between heaven and earth, yet only the attribute-less magic energy and gold-element magic energy particles

Poured into Wayne's body in an unending stream,

Strengthening his body while

Even more of them flowed into his sea of consciousness—or rather, into the witch formation that had formed—where, under the formation's control,

They dispersed throughout every corner of his sea of consciousness,

Continuously gathering spiritual power and expanding the space of his sea of consciousness.

At this point,

Wayne had officially advanced, becoming a novice lord wizard apprentice.